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Sigma is a huge supplier to the sciences; you can (with 40,000 pages of DEA approval) get just any chemical overnighted to you. For instance, you can order a Methamphetamine/Cocain…

The article title seems like an overreaction to a really sad situation. We have to trust at least someone, and although he clearly had some issues (maybe recent), he wasn't out to …

Well, you'll have to wait for the genetics to catch up -- we know nearly nothing about the effects of variation on complex traits like intelligence or athletic performance. Even in…

Currently there's limits on how long you can keep embryos going -- the '14-day rule': http://www.nature.com/news/embryology-policy-revisit-the-14-... Will be interesting to see the…

Why doesn't my FRT site logo invert when I reverse complement it? (not a serious complaint..) Signed up and played around a bit tonight. Really great concept. I think a couple of f…

This is a bit of a repeat: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13113819 . To echo the old thread's sentiments, I'd be extremely happy to see this hit the market in late summer as …

I'm with you on most of it... the one thing that seems really appealing is concepts and constraints. If for no other reason than to restore sanity to template error messages. Check…

If this kind of work interests you, I'd also recommending reading Yaniv Erlich and Dina Zielinski's DNA fountain paper (which just came out in Science). They've done some really ni…

Yes an no. Of course, in something like an animal model it can be really hard to control everything, and the result you find could just be 'luck'. On the other hand, figuring out w…

Ironically they're targeting the wrong end of the person. The sewers would be a great place to collect DNA and narrow down a manhunt in a large metropolitan area.

Yeah I think the use-case here is more the writing that you have to do, but don't want to do. For me, I have to write up some method sections for a paper. Boring, but easy. This 'a…

Well, better / more uniform access to patient records would be nice, but more money into basic research is probably the best bet (as it has always been). It makes me think of this …

I can't figure out what they're implying about Norman Borlaug's award at the end... that it was a mistake too? Either way, the NYT had a much better critique of why big scientific …

Seems like there are much more intuitive ways to show these differences, something like the plot on Dr. Moran's blog: http://sandwalk.blogspot.com/2012/01/whats-difference-betwee..…

Cool, though a more community friendly license would be great ("Confidential Proprietary" doesn't seem encouraging...)

I can't wait for nice bindings to a JS plotting library (something on top of D3). One of the big missing parts of Scala for analysis...